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Fwd: Re: Green Array energy consumption: a reality check.

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On 1/12/2014 7:54 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) writes:
>>> The GA144 is fabricated at 180nm
>> Of course. It is interesting that they don't seem to worry using
>> 3 generations behind technology.
>
> Supposedly 180nm is where leakage current is the lowest.  They want to
> minimize idle power even at a cost in active power, since their approach
> involves keeping the cpu cores idle almost all the time, and switching
> on and off very quickly.

Pardon me coming late to the party...

Yes there is the increased leakage at smaller geometries, but also the
massively increased cost of a mask set.  I doubt GA ever had the funding
to produce anything at state of the art geometries.

Actually, I wonder if the leakage is significantly more for a single
transistor.  That is, would the exact same chip end up having a much
higher leakage current or is the problem with the newer processes only a
real issue when using 10's or 100's of millions of transistors.  I don't
recall how many transistors are in the GA144, but it is *far* below 1
million I'm sure.

-- 

Rick

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